The US labor market : questions and challenges for public policy / Dean Baker [and 20 others] ; edited by Michael R. Strain
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- 7293839
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- Washington, DC : American Enterprise Institute, [2016]
- ©2016
- 1 online resource ( x, 289 pages) : illustrations.
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- 9780844750095 (electronic book)
- 0844750093 (electronic book)
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- 9780844750071
- 0844750077
- 9780844750088
- 0844750085
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- I. Should we be concerned about the state of economic mobility in the US? How much social mobility? More, but not without other things / Miles Corak
- What should be done to increase intergenerational mobility in the US? / Bhash Mazumder
- II. Is productivity the most important determinant of compensation? Marginally true : the connection of pay to productivity / Dean Baker
- Does productivity still determine worker compensation? Domestic and international evidence / Robert Z. Lawrence
- III. How can we build workers' skills? Is "skill" a topic for policy? / Peter Cappelli
- Worker skills and the US labor market : what role should policy play? / Harry J. Holzer
- IV. How can we make work pay? Supporting work, inclusion, and mass prosperity / Glenn Hubbard
- What do we really know about the employment effects of the minimum wage? / Justin Wolfers
- V. Do public policies that reduce the reward to work significantly diminish labor supply? The US safety net and work incentives : is there a problem? What should be done? / Robert A. Moffitt
- Rise of employment taxation / Casey B. Mulligan
- VI. What are the economic effects of lesser-skilled immigration on lesser-skilled native workers? Low-skill immigration / George J. Borjas
- Less-skilled immigration : economic effects and policy responses / Pia M. Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny
- VII. Would cutting the coporate tax rate significantly increase jobs in the US? Would reducing the US corporate tax rate increase employment in the United States? / Martin Feldstein
- Business tax reform and the labor market / Jason Furman and Betsey Stevenson
- VIII. What should we do about those Americans who are especially difficult to employ? Making work a priority for working-age people with disabilities / Richard V. Burkhauser and Mary C. Daly
- How to help the hard-to-employ : a focus on young men, especially the ex-incarcerated / Timothy M. Smeeding
- IX. Should we be concerned about income inequality? Is the concept of inequality the best way of thinking about our economic problems? / Tyler Cowen
- Should we be concerned about income inequality in the United States? / Melissa S. Kearney.
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- Includes bibliographical references.
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- U.S. labor market
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